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A quick thought on extended mediocre pitchers with a high upside has led me to consider 2 current pitchers. Seeing that Duffrey has well over 200 appearances and Alcala already has 77 games, appearances, for any reliever with a chance they should be able to make the appearance threshold. 750 innings pitched. Dylan Bundy has got that. So again, mediocrity with a high ceiling will give you a chance. Now you can all look back on Seth's pitcher rankings and you should have 13-14 pitchers with an upside high enough to get to the 200 appearance level or 750 innings. If my glasses were rosier , it would be all 30
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It is more likely that it was poor proofreading rather than grammar with an auto correct to blame
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See my reply to Sconnie for the first error in your post. The other error is that there is nobody named Falvine. Falvey interviewed with Pohlad. Levine would be Falvey's hire. Neither has had a job in player development side of the business. Neither would be bragging about being a pitcher whisperer
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Falvey came from an organization that knew pitching. That organization drafted pitchers and had them in the majors after a couple of years in the minors. That is not the Twins under Falvey. I don't think Falvey whispered anything in a player's ear. He certainly hasn't found great free agent pitchers.
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Ryan's team was so bad that adding Hector Santiago and Bartolo Colon led them to a wildcard berth under Falvey like the good old days under Ryan. Colon and Santiago were Falvey's adds to the team he inherited
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https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2021/baseball-antitrust-exemption-1234651096/?cx_testId=9&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s The story was interesting for the 35 seconds it was up before the paywall came crashing down. https://sports.yahoo.com/minors-sue-mlb-over-antitrust-050120584.html seems to be an earlier version. There will not be anything definitive for a few years. as any losing side will appeal. If all 40 cities sued it could get real interesting. The pre trial discovery leaks would be enlightening as to how baseball works.. After the minor outrage settled down, most would be forgotten. The paywall was $600 for a year.
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Let’s Remember Some Guys: Twins Players with Short Stints
Prince William replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Roy Smalley was traded for Greg Gagne and Paul Boris, who would fit in the category of short time Twin. Since the Yankees thought the trade was too lopsided they insisted on including Ron Davis. John Pacella was the other person obtained -
Let’s Remember Some Guys: Twins Players with Short Stints
Prince William replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
In the if only department. Had the Twins been able to refine him, they could have traded him for Thor. -
https://www.fantasypros.com/2021/03/most-accurate-fantasy-baseball-projections-2020/ Maybe there are other places to get a better idea?
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Revisiting the Twins 2018 Top Prospects
Prince William commented on cjm0926's blog entry in cjm0926's Blogs
He did not throw a slider is a possible cause. He has a bad 2020 and was outrighted. At the end of the season he was not added back to the 40 man. As near as I can piece together, Zack had paid his dues and could opt for free agency at the end of the year and did just that. https://www.mlb.com/player/zack-littell-641793 -
90 plus because two days into the season Oakland will panic and send the Twins their 3 starters for the top 5 Twins prospects or first year players with the last name starting with R
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The Twins Need to Spend…On This Bat?
Prince William replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
7/200 and hope he he can be productive in his end of contract years. The baseball reference gives him a similarity score through age 29 as he is similar to Larry Walker. That would be good. They say he is more closer to Richard Hidalgo. That would be a disaster for Bryant to go down that path -
one should give credit to the regime. Ryan or Smith of Falvey has headed the Twins. Ultimately whatever the employees do falls to the leader of the regime. The topic says regime, not name. It may be easy for you to declare as of now this FO is ahead. The lifeline of an organization is the controlable players from the minor league. There is a built in excuse if you want one to say at this point the FO is ahead. Without being able to judge the main pipeline of players, this whole debate is utterly pointless. Pointless debate is what the internet is about.
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The pipeline of players from the minors seemed kind of dry. When the core got old there were not replacements. One or two players were not going to bring about post season glory. Analytic would probably say that long term pitching deals are not good business. Even McPhail did not get Morris nor Smiley to stay.
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The Cleveland team manages to push pitchers to the majors within 2 years. It is more than reasonable. Terribly sorry that I did not memorize what other people had previously said. I am so very sorry to have distressed you.
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The people who worked for Smith in scouting worked for Ryan. Ryan in the past said the scouting director picked the players. It was Deron Johnson under Smit and Ryan v. 2.0 . Given the player's ages, is it the FO or is it the player's maturation? The development of position players drafted by this front office seems lacking compared to the last one
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MacPhail left the team in horrible shape, setting up the doldrums of the mid 90s for the Twins. MacPhail built a team, remodeled it with bandaids and left with a reputation .
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Yet 2-3 seasons ago there was a division winning club with mostly players from a GM that time passed by. It is funny how that works
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I don't think there were any pitchers who did not pitch in 2020 throwing much over 100 innings, so 2020 affected everyone
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There hasn't been much for trades to judge what the price may be. Fan proposals are what they are. Too bad Smeltzer did not pitch just a little bit better 2 years ago. He could have been that major league peace err piece
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They will go hard for the one or two year contracts that no one wants to sign until there is no other option. One week before spring training is the time when the FO plan will become clearer. The other avenue is trades. When the price of long term contracts went up the asking price for traded pitching must have gone way up.
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Let’s Remember Some Guys: Twins Players with Short Stints
Prince William replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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What if the Rebuild is the Twins Confidence?
Prince William replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Which pitcher for the Guardians has been ranked? That is why you can't believe rankings.- 14 replies
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Hard to say the previous fo was awful. The current team has a roster of players signed by the previous regime. The old regime did manage to find a quite a few position players. They even found a few that other teams found useful. They could find a few useful players in rule v. They usually had a starter developed by the team. They really did not find relatively cheap treasures in free agency. Some useful trades, some not. The current FO has not had anyone develop quickly, neither did the previous regime. That leaves out comparing amateur acquisitions. Rule v? Cheap treasures in FA? nope. The current front office made a couple good trades, some not. Nope, as of right now with what one could compare, there isn't much difference.
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remind me again how many decent players were picked just after or near to Tyler Jay or Kohl Stewart. They could have guessed better, It is hard to say they could have picked better when the pickings are slim. 13 amd 15 were lousy years Mitch Garver and LaMonte Wade have each more than 1 WAR
